I know, its just that Groovy 1.8 is so cool its hard to resist :)

Any time frame on when it will be supported?

Thanks
Ronen

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Peter Niederwieser <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Ronen Narkis wrote:
> >
> > Iv tried to use groovy 1.8 in a plugin that I'm writing, seems like the
> > groovy version that my plugin depends upon isn't provided on runtime by
> > default:
> >
> > Cause: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: groovy.json.JsonSlurper
> >
> > Adding:
> >
> > classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:1.8.0'
> >
> > to the buildfile script worked but I'm not sure its the way to go
> >
>
> As I said earlier, implementing plugins with Groovy 1.8 isn't supported at
> this point, and one simply cannot tell beforehand if it will work reliably
> or not. (The reason is that Groovy doesn't guarantee binary backwards
> compatibility between major versions, which admittedly is hard to achieve
> for an alternative JVM language. There is at least one known breaking
> change
> between 1.7 and 1.8, which is related to the use of the 'assert' keyword.)
> For plugins that are only used internally, this is obviously a lesser
> concern than for plugins shared with the rest of the world.
>
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